The three periods of interstate commerce.... 364 Chief features of the first period.... . 365-366 Railway extension after the war. 373-374 Railway consolidation and other problems. 375–376 Ocean cables .379-380 Expansion of telegraph systems. The spread of ocean cables.. 380-381 CHAPTER XII. 1865-1912. HISTORY OF UNITED STATES FINANCES. Conditions at the close of the war.... 395 The funding act of 1866.. 396 Contraction of the currency. .396-397 The resumption of specie payments. .397-398 The panic of 1873.... .398-399 Changes in taxation. 400 Tariff revision 400-401 The efforts to demonetize silver, .401-402 Further tariff revision.. 402-403 The panic of 1893..... .403-405 The Gorman-Wilson and Dingley tariffs. . 405-406 Spanish-American War finances... 406 The crisis of 1907... 407 Recent modifications of banking laws...... 408 CHAPTER XIII. 1866–1912. LABOR AND ITS PROBLEMS. Peonage and padroning after the war...... 409 The rise of labor unions.... 409-411 Strikes and other labor conflicts. 411-413 The boycott and blacklisting.... 413–414 Industrial combinations vs. competition. .414-415 Compulsory arbitration 415 Child and female labor..... .415-416 Legislative restrictions on child labor...... 416 Factory acts, workmen's compensation and .416 419 CHAPTER I. 1865-1912, HISTORY OF EDUCATION SINCE THE WAR. Establishment of the Bureau of Education. 421-422 The “ township unit”.... .422-423 Public schools 423-424 Introduction the kindergarten.... Intermediate and high schools. 425 Improvements in the methods of teaching. 425-426 Manual training 426 Vocational schools 426 Public high schools.. 426-427 Extension of studies.. 427 Medical inspection 428 Open-Air schools 428-429 School discipline 429-430 Evolution of the text book .. 430 Teachers' salaries and equal pay. 430-431 Normal schools and other training schools for teachers, 431-432 STITUTIONS. The great statesmen of the period ........463–464 Changes in forms of legislative procedure. 464-465 Increase in executive responsibility......465-466 Constitutions adopted since the Civil War... 475 Characteristics and tendencies in recent con- stitutions ..475-477 Methods of enacting and amending constitu- .477-478 CHAPTER II. 1865–1912. THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Work of the Department of Agriculture.... 467 Bureaus of the State Department..... 467-468 CHAPTER V. Additions to the Treasury Department. 468 1865–1912. Attorneys-General . 468 Work of the Post-Office Department. 469 ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN REG- The Department of the Interior.... 469-470 ULATING COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. The Department of Commerce and Labor.... 470 Federal control of railways.. 480_482 Anti-trust legislation 482-484 CHAPTER III. The Department of Commerce and Labor ..484-486 The Post-Office .. 486 1865–1912. The Patent Office 486-487 THE JUDICIARY. The Department of the Interior. 487 Republicanization of the Supreme Court..471-472 The Treasury Department 487-488 New issues before the Court... 472 Tariff legislation 488-491 Broader interpretation of the Constitu- Panama Canal 491 tion .. . 472–473 The Pan-American Union.. 491-492 Chief Justices of the Court. 473 Dollar Diplomacy 492 Inferior courts .473–474. Waterways . 492-493 573 CHAPTER I. 1918-1916. THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT WILSON. President Wilson's policies... 555 His Cabinet ... 556 The Underwood tariff 557 The income tax 557 The Federal Reserve Bank. .557-558 Anti-trust acts 558-559 The Rayburn bill 559 The Federal Trade Commission. 559–560 The Clayton Anti-Trust Act.. 560 The railroad situation .560-561 Influence of the tariff. .561-562 The Tariff Board 563 Politics and parties.. 563-565 Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments..... 565 State constitutional changes 565 Woman suffrage 565–566 Liquor legislation 566-567 Immigration .. 568-569 Seamen and shipping. .569-570 573-574 Arbitration treaties 574 Panama Cana! tolls .574-575 Latin-American affairs 575-576 The Mexican civil war and the pursuit of Villa ... ..576-578 American neutrality in European War...578–579 Contraband and the war zone.... .580-581 The Lusitania and other disasters. .581-582 Internal disturbances 582 The munitions and blockade questions. .582-583 Sinking of the Susser.... 583 Wilson's demand for adjustment and Ger- many's reply 583 Preparedness . 583-584 |
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